In this book, Thomas Kaiser and Oliver D. Doleski present a practical management method for the realization of data technology innovations (advanced analytics) as well as a procedure based on this method for the corresponding transformation of business models – which is the pathway to advanced operations. The authors provide assistance with the careful combination of use cases to achieve holistic business objectives. According to this approach, strategic options, structures and methods should accompany the phase of an early transformation. This calls for a system of business model innovation under the perspective of implementing such an Advanced Operations as introduced by this book.

In the fast changing business and financial markets, the role of operations manager is crucially important to any organisation. As automated processes increase and settlement cycles shorten, the demands on operations managers to embrace change and to become cost effective contributors to the bottom line increases. This book follows on from Fundamentals of Global Operations Management, 2e (0470026537). Author David Loader explores the challenges of being a good supervisor and manager in an environment of constant change, variable workloads and pressure to deliver quality services cost-effectively. He covers the key aspects of the role, which include managing risk, people and clients.

In a presentation that balances theory and practice, Drills: Science and Technology of Advanced Operations details the basic concepts, terminology, and essentials of drilling. The book addresses important issues in drilling operations, and provides help with the design of such operations. It debunks many old notions and beliefs while introducing scientifically and technically sound concepts with detailed explanations. The book presents a nine-step drilling tool failure analysis methodology that includes part autopsy and tool reconstruction procedure. A special feature of the book is the presentation of special mechanisms of carbide (e.g. cobalt leaching) and polycrystalline (PCD) tool wear and failure presented and correlated with the tool design, manufacturing, and implementation practice. The author also introduces the system approach to the design of the drilling system formulating the coherency law. Using this law as the guideline, he shows how to formulate the requirement to the components of such a system, pointing out that the drilling tool is the key component to be improved. Teaching how to achieve this improvement, the book provides the comprehensive scientific and engineering foundations for drilling tool design, manufacturing, and applications of high-performance tools. It includes detailed explanations of the design features, tool manufacturing and implementation practices, metrology of drilling and drilling tools, and the tool failure analysis. It gives you the information needed for proper manufacturing and selection of a tool material for any given application.

Fashion has been steadily moving from the brick and mortar to the digital market. As such, it is increasingly vital to research new methods that will help businesses to grow and succeed in this new sphere. Advanced Fashion Technology and Operations Management is a pivotal reference source for the latest development management strategies, fashion marketing, international business, and fashion entrepreneurship. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as online shopping behavior, digital fashion, and e-commerce, this book is ideally designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and researchers.

This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective. It presents various advanced multi-criteria decision analysis methods for investigating factors that influence complex systems. In turn, it shows how to improve systems’ performance, including their competitiveness, safety, and sustainability. The book also draws on examples of typical virtual systems such as tourism, aviation maintenance, and waste-to-wealth systems to illustrate the operations management methods discussed. Cases from day-to-day life are used to elicit heuristic questions on the operations management methods presented in each chapter. The book will help researchers, operations managers, and engineers alike to understand the latest advances in operations management methods for analysing complex systems from the standpoint of system engineering.

This textbook provides students with fundamentals and advanced concepts in optimization and operations research. It gives an overview of the historical perspective of operations research and explains its principal characteristics, tools, and applications. The wide range of topics covered includes convex and concave functions, simplex methods, post optimality analysis of linear programming problems, constrained and unconstrained optimization, game theory, queueing theory, and related topics. The text also elaborates on project management, including the importance of critical path analysis, PERT and CPM techniques. This textbook is ideal for any discipline with one or more courses in optimization and operations research; it may also provide a solid reference for researchers and practitioners in operations research.

From the contents: Initial planning for urban transit systems (S.C. Wirasinghe). - Public transport timetabling and vehicle scheduling (A. Ceder). - Designing public transport network and routes (A. Ceder). - Transit path choice and assignment model approaches (A. Nuzzolo). - Schedule-based transit assignment models (A. Nuzzolo). - Frequency based transit route choice models (M. Florian).

This book explains how the binary works and how it is used by computers to represent information including positive and negative integers, characters and real numbers. It explains the logical and bitwise operations used to manipulate information and perform arithmetic. We also briefly look at how computers store this information in memory and secondary storage, and how it can be transmitted between computers. Topics covered include: INTRODUCING NUMBER BASES AND BINARY CONVERTING FROM BINARY TO DENARY AND VICE-VERSA How to Convert a Binary Number to Denary How to Convert a Denary Number to Binary HOW COMPUTERS GROUP BINARY DIGITS A Closer Look at Bytes A Closer Look at Words * Word alignment, word alignment and packing, byte ordering and endianness Addresses BOOLEAN OPERATIONS AND LOGIC GATES Fundamentals of Boolean Algebra * NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NAND, NOR, NXOR Combining Logic Gates * NOT, AND, OR, XOR, NOR using NAND logic Logical Versus Bitwise Operations Using Bitwise Operations to Set, Clear, Flip or Test Bits * Setting bits, inverting bits, clearing bits, testing bits ADDING AND SUBTRACTING IN BINARY Adding Binary Integers * The column addition method of adding denary numbers and adding binary numbers, implementing binary addition using logic gates Subtracting Binary Integers * The column subtraction methods of subtracting denary numbers and subtracting binary numbers, implementing binary subtraction using logic gates SHIFT OPERATIONS Left Shift Right Shift Circular Shifts MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION IN BINARY Multiplication * Multiplying by a power of 2, column multiplication, Russian peasant multiplication algorithm, multiplication in hardware Division * Dividing by a power of 2, denary long division, binary long division, algorithm for binary long division, division in hardware REPRESENTING CHARACTERS AND STRINGS OF CHARACTERS Representing Individual Characters * ASCII, extended ASCIIs, BCDIC and other early character encodings, EBCDIC, Unicode Representing Strings of Characters * Terminated strings, length-prefixed strings, other string representations REPRESENTING TEXT AND GRAPHICS ON SCREEN Text Mode Displays Bitmap Displays PARITY CHECKING What is a Parity Bit Even and Odd Parity Advantages, Disadvantages and Limitations of Using Parity Checking Parity's Use in RAID Storage Devices Unused Parity Bits SIGNED INTEGERS Offset Binary Signed Magnitude Representation One's Complement Two's Complement Other Representations of Signed Numbers * Base -2, signed-digit representation REAL NUMBERS Fixed Point Representation Floating Point Representation Rational Data Type Logarithmic Number Systems DENARY ENCODINGS AND DECIMAL DATA TYPES Why Use Denary Representations of Real Numbers? Binary Encodings of Denary * Serial decimal, two-out-of-five, bi-quinary, character-based encodings of denary, binary-Coded Decimal (BCD), Chen-Ho Encoding, Densely Packed Decimal (DPD) and excess-3 Decimal Data Types * Which numbers can be exactly represented in fixed and floating point? * How inexact? * Issues with inexact representation * Decimal representation DATA STRUCTURES Structs Arrays Linked Lists and More Complex Structures * Limitations of arrays, introducing linked lists, singly and doubly linked lists, more complex data structures TYPES OF COMPUTER MEMORY Magnetic-Core Memory and Core Rope Memory RAM * DRAM and SRAM ROM * Mask-programmed ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, Flash memory SECONDARY STORAGE Sequential Storage * Punched tape, magnetic tape Random Access Storage * Magnetic disk, optical disk, solid state drives, flash memory and cloud Storage MEASURING MEMORY AND STORAGE DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Serial Communication Parallel Communication MEASURING TRANSFER RATES Baud